South Park [GBC – Cancelled]

South Park [GBC – Cancelled]

A South Park videogame was planned for the GameBoy Color and was in development at Acclaim studios in 1998, but sadly the project was soon cancelled by the shows creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone due to them feeling that the game isn’t right for the Game Boy Color as children were the main demographic for the system. There are not many info on this game and only a single screenshot was published in an old Nintendo Power magazine (issue 114). The prototype cartridge now belongs to Trey and Matt, commemorating the very first South Park game ever created.

It seems that after the South Park game was cancelled Acclaim didn’t want all their investment in the project to go to waste so it was changed to Maya the Bee and published in Europe. After a little more tweaking it also became the New Adventures of Mary Kate & Ashley and published in the US. If you check videos of these 2 games, you can see that the HUD is basically the same, the platforms and the ladders are similar

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The reason it was canceled by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators, because they didn’t want a Game Boy Color version of the South Park game made since they felt the game was not for kids. But they did keep a few copies of the Game Boy Color in comemorant of what was originally started as the first South Park game.

The reason it was canceled by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators, because they didn’t want a Game Boy Color version of the South Park game made since they felt the game was not for kids. But they did keep a few copies of the Game Boy Color in comemorant of what was originally started as the first South Park game

It’s possible I may have a rom of it somewhere, I’ll have a hunt through my archives. Atomickid is right. After the game was cancelled Acclaim didn’t want all their investment in the project to go to waste so it was changed to Maya the Bee and published in Europe. After a little more tweaking it also became the New Adventures of Mary Kate & Ashley and published in the US. I liked it better when it was South Park.

The thing I couldn’t quite work out was why the project was allowed to go almost to the end before it was cancelled??? I mean neither the GBC user base nor the demographic that South Park was intended for changed over the duration of the project, and the project stuck pretty much to the same design all the way through, so why wait right until the end before deciding that?

I ran a website about South Park games for a while, hosted at a website called N64 Shooters back in 1999 if not earlier. My website was called “South Park Gaming Central” and later changed names to the “South Park Penny Arcade.”

I scanned that screenshot from Nintendo Power for my website. Glad to see it still exists on the internet over a decade later.

I believe in the files for Maya the Bee & Her Friends, the sprites of Kenny, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle still remain. Also a sprite that seems to be Itchy from the Simpsons (that’s what it looks like) is in the game. I don’t think that sprite went used at all.

Hope this is some good information, I’m very interested with this game, and if Trey Parker and Matt Stone put the game up for download somewhere, I’m going to get it.

The .ROM of the game is finally out! The gameplay is actually somewhat close to Evolution: Dino Dudes (a.k.a. The Humans) and pretty good i must say. I have the .ROM that was somehow released at LostMediaWiki’s Discord and turns out that it was actually 100% finished! It was obtained directly from one of the lead developers of the game. Too bad it was actually never officially released but at least the .ROM is finally out at last!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf-Ln3yeQAY

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